Fatal Card of Ecclesiastical Editor Sparks Royal Slapstick
A mock tale from Harper's Weekly recounts the rise of an ecclesiastical editor at The Thunderer who, after receiving his engraved card, acts with grandiose self importance. His blitz to Lambeth Palace ends in sleep as attendants whisk him to the newspaper office, exposing the vanity behind clerical advancement.
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London Times
Thunderer
All England
The
Surbiton
Ludgate Hill
Green Dragon Bar
Arthur
Cecil Appleby Botsford Hetherington
the Thunderer
Temple Bar
Ned
Canterbury
Botsford-Hetherington
Lambeth Palace
Mr. Botsford-letherington
Harper's Weekly
A Dreadful Weapon Across Cultures and Ages
The article surveys ancient and tribal clubs and war clubs from Mexico Sioux and Polynesian cultures, noting grooved blades of volcanic glass and shark teeth hafted with wood. It traces evolution from clubs to tomahawks and spears, and cites African iron weapons, throwing clubs, and the transition to modern missile arms.
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Mexico
National Museum of
United States
Mournful Song Heard In Mobile Quarter
A passerby in Mobile, Alabama, hears an old woman chant a dirgelike tune in the negro quarter. The woman asks, “Auntie, that is a mournful song you sing.” The response is “Yagsum,” explaining she knows it’s mournful but sings it while tending to her own business in hope of reaching heaven.
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Mobile
Ala
Proper Word Reckoning in the King’s English
Ruth seven, in an apartment house, argues about the proper word in a vocal lesson. The lexicographer narrator says her comment about a singer confounds the phrase and shocks seventy five neighbors who all agree she is having her voice difficulted.
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Ruth
New York Times
Three Signs Delight Downtown Observers
A New York Post note tells of a man who, on his way downtown, saw three signs that read Leddy Bears Re tailed, Baby Carriages Retired, and Umbrellas Recovered, leaving him grinning at the peculiar wording.
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New York Post
Political boomerang roatback on the return trip
A quotation from the Philadelphia Ledger notes a playful exchange defining a political boomerang as a rollback on the return journey, illustrating a clever turn of phrase in historical discourse.
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Philadelphia Ledger
His Idea of Luck Card Luck and Love in Comic Exchange
A humorous exchange portrays Blobbs and Stobbs debating luck at cards and his unmarried status. The Philadelphia Record notes Blobbs as the most unlucky at cards, while his love life remains a running joke.
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Blobbs
Bjones
Stobbs
Philadelphia
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